An introduction to Western theatre in global contexts / Jillian Campana and Yasmine Jahanmir -- Similarities and differences in teaching Western based theatre in China and the Arab world / Marvin Carlson -- Lysistrata in Cairo : maintaining values while extending the limit / Jillian Campana -- Laxmi Bai got Drunk at Malini's Dinner and Venturewell became an Underwear Baron : JUDE productions of Western classics in Kolkata, India / Arnab Banerji -- West side stories : the racial politics and aesthetic considerations of staging Hell's Kitchen globally / Yasmine Jahanmir -- Across a cloudy room : the cultural appropriation of American musicals by Chinese students at the expense of their own national identity : a case study / Jim Mirrione and Wei Song -- How to swim in the desert : on developing a theatre department in Oman / Mark Tardi -- The viewpoints as transcultural pedagogy / Adam Christopher Marple -- The ISTA performing arts academies in Shanghai and Hong Kong / Anne Drouet and Jillian Campana -- Reaching the audience / Fenella Kelly -- Collaborative creations : teaching devised performance in Santiago, Chile / Anne García-Romero -- The ethical demand of experiencing imaginative literature in teaching Sophocles' Antigone to students of applied English / Selma Helal -- Post/colonial theatre in Madagascar : hybridity and controversy in Jean-Luc Raharimanana's Le Prophète et le Président / Haddy Kreie -- Towards "relevance" and collective action in a South African School's touring production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra : discovering the operations of Imperial Rome, Cleopatra's power and the meaning of a crocodile / Sarah Roberts and Néka Da Costa -- Intersections and encounters : the meshwork of an international Australian/Jordanian puppet theatre collaboration / Lynne Kent -- Conclusion: Provocations for educators and practitioners / Jillian Campana and Yasmine Jahanmir.